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minus-squarepimeys@lemmy.nauk.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up16·11 months agoNix can build you a bit-to-bit exact environment for your app. It is a superior environment, but is hard to use in the beginning and users can feel snobby sometimes. It is awesome, but YMMV.
minus-squareqaz@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·11 months agoHow do you separate Nix programs from the rest of the system?
minus-squarepimeys@lemmy.nauk.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up9·edit-211 months agoIt creates a set of symlinks so every program sees exactly the dependencies it needs. https://nixos.org/guides/nix-pills/09-automatic-runtime-dependencies#automatic-runtime-dependencies You can also create a container: https://nixos.wiki/wiki/NixOS_Containers Or you can create reproducible docker containers with nix: https://dev.to/anurag_vishwakarma/a-better-way-to-build-reproducible-docker-images-with-nix-2k59 The secret sauce with nix is reproducibility. If it builds once, it will continue building exactly like that forever. Bit by bit.
minus-squareqaz@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·11 months agoThat’s very interesting, I was aware of how NixOS separated dependency versions but I didn’t know it natively supported containers.
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Can you elaborate?
Nix can build you a bit-to-bit exact environment for your app. It is a superior environment, but is hard to use in the beginning and users can feel snobby sometimes. It is awesome, but YMMV.
How do you separate Nix programs from the rest of the system?
It creates a set of symlinks so every program sees exactly the dependencies it needs.
https://nixos.org/guides/nix-pills/09-automatic-runtime-dependencies#automatic-runtime-dependencies
You can also create a container:
https://nixos.wiki/wiki/NixOS_Containers
Or you can create reproducible docker containers with nix:
https://dev.to/anurag_vishwakarma/a-better-way-to-build-reproducible-docker-images-with-nix-2k59
The secret sauce with nix is reproducibility. If it builds once, it will continue building exactly like that forever. Bit by bit.
That’s very interesting, I was aware of how NixOS separated dependency versions but I didn’t know it natively supported containers.